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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 47-7005429

The Spread Compassion Foundation

A private foundation in Orchard Park, NY. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 2 grants and $6,110 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Martha Cipriani
6450 Ward Rd
Orchard Park, NY 14127
(716) 860-3189
[email protected]
Form and materials
A form listing reason for financial difficulty should be submitted. It should be accompanied by a caseworker's statement and a disclosure of personal balance sheet and sources of income and summary of annual expenses. Generally the recipients are people suffering financial difficulties as a result of uninsured large medical expenses which either have limited the ability to work or have overwhelmed the ability of the family to stay solvent. In some cases the financial difficulties arise from other unexpected income insufficiencies such as unemployment or job changes.
Deadlines
There is no submission deadline.
Restrictions
Generally the parties served are in the greater buffalo/niagara and western new york region.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $6,110

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $10,655

  • Tax year 2024

    $14,245

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $16,828

  • Tax year 2023

    $13,890

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $31,312

  • Tax year 2022

    $20,151

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $20,108

  • Tax year 2021

    $12,454

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $11,016

  • Tax year 2020

    $21,058

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $14,510

  • Tax year 2019

    $19,528

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $22,982

  • Tax year 2018

    $20,043

    Grants listed
    79
    Assets, end of year
    $14,337

Grants paid in 2025

2 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Individual

    Operations

    $4,831
  2. Individual

    Various needy individuals

    $1,279

Officers, directors and trustees

6 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Martha CiprianiPRESIDENT Hours 0Pay $0
  • James CiprianiVICE PRESIDE Hours 0Pay $0
  • Richard TeibelTREASURER Hours 0Pay $0
  • Anne DunbarDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Patricia ValtinDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Jonathan PolisenoDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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